The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-04-21
SUIT AGAINST THE TINES" FOR
LIBEL.
NOT HOWEVER BY PARNELl NOR HIS
SUPPORTERS.
Probability of an independent Motion to Bring the
Editor Before the Bar Of the House OF
Commons.

an address delivered last night. before
the Primrose League at Albert Palace.
the occasion being the sixth anniversary
of the death of Lord Beaconstield. said
the hollow agitation carried on during
Easter by the Opposition had failed. and
that the Government cause was the
country's. The Government stood in
Ireland facing a vast machine. prpduc
ing terrorism and crime, against which
the Government intended tO struggle
with all the powers Parliament would
grant. Mr.. Gladstone's Imagination de
ceived him when he attempted to
prove that his party's prospects
We're very bright. The present
Irish Grimes bill would not compare in
stringency with Gladstone's bill of 1881.
Under the latter measure people were
imprisoned without trial This could
not he done under the present bill. Sup
preston of crime i'll Ireland did not
mean suppression of liberty. Policemen
in arresting Bill Sykes did not interfere
with liberty. Yet Gladstone condemned
this Grimes Repression bill. \ danger
of the present day lay in catchwor,Is.
Mr.. Gladstone, who mad spent
his life in changing his opinions. men
toned those who separated from him in
the tone of a father lecturing his children.
He preached at, and almost prayed for,
them; but it never occurred to Mr.. Glad
stone that perhaps they had something
To complain of. They were unable to
change their opinion in "A night like he
could. Mr.. Salisbury prophesied that
Mr.. Gladstone would find it difficult To
gather around him any new recruits.
His present adherents had gone too far
to recede.
What had Mr.. Gladstone gained:
asked the Premier. He had gained
eighty-six very devoted followers of Par
nell. who had been challenged
with having approved murder and who
had refused. or whose friends had re
fused for him To enter the witness box
and deny the charge. And this course
Mr.. Gladstone approved. Parnell had
been assisted with funds subscribed by
men who were associated with murder
When man was accused in such a
manner it was not open to him
to put the accusation aside
with the copiOus use of elegant vocabu-
larry which his friends had introduced
into the House of Commons. He was
bound to enter the witness box and deny
the charges against him most solemnly.
How could Mr.. Gladstone go before the
country associated with men who refused
to submit such charges to the Judgment
of an English jury:
The Speaker did not believe in thu.
Gladstone horoscope. The victory Mr.
Gladstone obtained in 1880 was won
by flood of Misrepresentation that
could not be respected. Tn,
Conservatives We're now an or
ganized party, powerful to refute false
hood and disseminate truth. This CON
dition of the party was largely due to
the work of the Primrose League. The
present Government would. when it left
office, hand down unimpaired To their
SUCCESSORS the great trust of the Empire
committed to them. Cheers.
The London GIobe of this evening,
says that Bigger will SUE the Times for
libel. and make that papers articles on
''Parnellism and Crime" the series of
which the Parnell letter was the cul-
minating part, the basis of action.
To CALL HIM BEFORE THE BAR.
Several Gladstone Liberals desire to
have Parliament ISSUE a summons to the
editor of the Times calling him before
the bar of the House To answer for a
breach of privilege in accusing ParneIl
and other members of the House of com
phcity in crime or that Mr.. Gladstone
propose the appointment of "A committee
To examine the Times charges. The
Parnellites have been consulted and
their leaders oppose both propositions.
If neither the Parnellites nor the Glad
stonians take the initiation in moving
for an investigation, it is probable that
an independent motion will be made
which both the Government and the
Liberal Union members will support.